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Vikki, I'm a firm believer in making things easy on yourself, whenever possible!

Yes we are quite capable of signing up and making cards and popping in. You shouldn't feel like you have to comment, or anything! You have gone above and beyond.

For me, seriously, it's just enough knowing I have challenged myself and the fact that there's a thread, helps me be accountable.

Thanks for your update! Kids coming back happens a lot these days, I hear. Mine both left in the last 12 months and so far so good but I haven't yet finished cleaning out their rooms. DD still has a lot of stuff here to be moved.

When I started stamping, I took over the dining room. Well that's not entirely true. I used to stamp on one small end of the table. NOW I have taken over the whole room.

Well, it is embarrassing to admit, but I was one of those kids that moved back home. I was even married at the time. My ex and I had been living in Florida and after 8 years down there I got home sick and wanted to move back to Iowa. My mom let us move in with her until we both got jobs. We had a little money saved up before we moved, but I couldn't make the commitment to signing a lease on a place of our own until I knew we could pay the rent for more than the first month. It only took a couple of months for us to be able to move out, but it was long enough.

Vikki I didn't get my cards done most months this year, but I did stop in and look at every one else's cards. I would very much like to see the challenge up again next year. By all means get volunteers to help you, with the challenges or anything else you need. I liked having diffferant people post the challenges this year. Many of them were ideas I would never have come up with on my own. It is amazing to me the creativity of everyone on SCS and how every one interpreted the challenges differently.

I hope you get some relief Vikkijo from the injections, steve decided against cortazone injections for his knees as they were very painful to have and didn't. Give relief for very long.
Sounds like you will be having a family Christmas this year with your son staying, and a bonus that he's a good cook, our son is cooking goose this year, we normally have turkey, and we having a polish Christmas meal on Christmas Eve, which is when they have their celebration dinner, our future DIL is polish and we have been invited to her sisters house to join them and their mum is over too so it will be a lovely change for us.

As for next years challenge, I hope you will be able to carry on as its a great help to everyone who joins in, I will be joining again if you do, we are all grateful for the time and effort you all put in to make this work and all the challenges too, it's much appreciated.

Vikki, we all appreciate all you have done keeping the Christmas Card Challenge going and certainly will appreciate anything you do for next year. I totally agree that you should simplify as much as possible. We can easily set our goals just by posting on the overall thread, and then if you set up each month's thread, we will just monitor ourselves, comment on each other as we're able to keep the motivation going, and get volunteers for the monthly challenges.

Speaking of volunteers for the monthly challenges, I'll happily do one of them.

Thank you!! It really helps me get all the cards made that I need for my fundraiser and for myself.

I joined this year for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I do understand that it is a lot of extra work for yourself so whatever you feel you can manage is fine by me.
Thanks so much for this year and your input, it's been graet.

Hi Vikki, sorry to hear you are still having problems, hope the injections help some .....
I do hope that you feel able to continue running the challenge but I am the first to admit that I don't know how you ladies keep everything on track as you do, I take my hat off to each and everyone of you. I agree with others that we are all capable of setting goals, monitoring ourselves and keeping the motivation going by commenting as we are able. With that in mind whatever form the challenge takes next year is fine by me because it really does keep me going but whatever is best for you - simple is good

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I knew I could count on good advise and wonderful support from you ladies! Thank you all so much.

I will get all the threads started and posted. Everyone can pop in on the main one and pledge their goals. I won't have a signed up post. (That way if I miss a name no one feels ignored)
I will set up the threads for each month, I will take volunteers for the challenges for each month, just like this year.
And when I can get internet (whether at home or or using Wifi in town i will look at the cards everyone posts)
I tried using my sons phone,I can see them but can not comment..grrr

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Originally Posted by susanbri

Vikki, we all appreciate all you have done keeping the Christmas Card Challenge going and certainly will appreciate anything you do for next year. I totally agree that you should simplify as much as possible. We can easily set our goals just by posting on the overall thread, and then if you set up each month's thread, we will just monitor ourselves, comment on each other as we're able to keep the motivation going, and get volunteers for the monthly challenges.

Speaking of volunteers for the monthly challenges, I'll happily do one of them.

Thank you!! It really helps me get all the cards made that I need for my fundraiser and for myself.

I love the Christmas challenge! I have taken on quite a bit here lately but I do love this thread!!! I think I can volunteer to take a month, later in the year next year. Maybe July? I am with the other ladies, we can certainly take up the slack. I try to comment as often as possible because I really enjoy viewing everyone's cards but there are seasons when I can't. Thanks so much for all you have done and for keeping us going with another year of threads!

Vikki.....thanks so much for all you do!!!! We appreciate the organization you put into doing the Christmas Card Challenge. It's great seeing everyone's cards....even when I'm behind!!! It seems that I don't get a chance to work on Christmas cards all year round...but, this helped. When I had my head in gear!!!

I need to make more time for stamping!!! Let me know where I can help.

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Hey Susan pop on over to the new thread and take which ever one you'd like, I took June.

I have my dad on my mind today.
He's been gone almost 17 years now.(January it will be 17 yrs)
Anyhow....my thoughts were of deer, hunting, fishing, trucks and his big camper.
He worked construction and would move to TX or AZ every Winter for work.

Oh speaking of TX my MIL brought a Christmas cactus back from there a couple of years back and asked me to care for it in the Winter, well this year she said to just toss it out, it's getting so old. Well I can't just 'kill' a plant on purpose (I do that just fine on accident) well that thing is in my room and blooming like never before, it is so pretty! Pink and white. I'll get a pic on my blog later.